► Fauve is a raw, powerful 16-minute film that is the cinematic equivalent of a fine short story. Stark, beautiful and terrible.
WATCH/WITNESS
Videos, paintings, pictures, maps, animations and other pleasures for your eyes and ears.
Rock Balancing Artist Kokei Mikuni
Mesmerizing ► video of rock balancing artist Kokei Mikuni. I could watch this kind of thing for hours. See also: ► Michael Grab && Manu Topic.
The Chimp Who Believed She was Human
“A social experiment goes awry when a couple ► adopts a baby chimpanzee and raises her as their daughter.” An amazing story with multiple acts. Directed and animated by Elisa Chee.
Porcelain Unicorn
► Porcelain Unicorn, Grand Prize winner of the Philips Parallel Lines ‘Tell It Your Way’ international competition.
Pauvre Pierrot
“► Pauvre Pierrot (aka Poor Pete) is an 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud. It consists of 500 individually painted images and lasts about 15 minutes. ¶ It is one of the first animated films ever made…”
Why We Say “OK”
I thought I knew everything about ► the history of the word “OK,” but I was mistaken. Thanks, Reader S. for the nudge.
Letterlocking
I’ve mentioned Jana Dambrogio’s “letterlocking” site and video channel here before, but it’s worth re-visiting because both are packed with new information and videos on letter folds, real and fictional, from the beautiful “butterfly lock” used by Mary Queen of Scots to send her last letter—just six hours before her execution—to a secure method used by Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster to Dumbledore’s will as seen in the film Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part 1.
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